This article was originally published as a pre-release announcement and updated on March 23rd, 2026 to reflect the official release of Bee v2.7.1.
Bee v2.7.1 Released March 23rd
Bee v2.7.1 was released on March 23rd. This patch release brings improvements to the multiple p2p transport support introduced in 2.7.0, along with faster startup times and bug fixes.
📢 Operator Notice — Hosting Provider Alerts
The Bee team has observed that some hosting providers may flag node behaviour as a scanning attack, caused by libp2p attempting connections to peer addresses in private IP ranges.
This does not affect all operators, but if your node is flagged, throttled, or suspended, you may need to apply a mitigation.
👉 Please refer to the v2.7.1 release notes for full details and instructions.
More Stable Connectivity
Bee 2.7.0 added support for multiple p2p transports, which was a big step forward for connectivity but also introduced some edge cases where nodes could become temporarily unreachable by their peers.
Bee 2.7.1 resolves these issues. Nodes should experience more reliable and stable connections overall.
Faster Startup
New node startup time has been reduced thanks to improvements in how postage batch data is processed during startup.
Bug Fixes & Maintenance
A crash triggered by invalid batch top-up values has been fixed, a Prometheus metric for node reachability status has been corrected, and some deprecated configuration flags have been cleaned up.
Full Changelog
For a full list of all changes, refer to the release changelog on GitHub.
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